Anderson, Darran, author.
Imaginary cities : a tour of dream cities, nightmare cities, and everywhere in between / Darran Anderson.
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
©2015
570 pages ; 22 cm
How can we understand the infinite variety of cities? Darran Anderson seems to exhaust all possibilities in this work of creative nonfiction. Drawing inspiration from Marco Polo and Italo Calvino, Anderson shows that we have much to learn about ourselves by looking not only at the cities we have built, but also at the cities we have imagined. Anderson draws on literature (Gustav Meyrink, Franz Kafka, Jaroslav Hasek, and James Joyce), but he also looks at architectural writings and works by the likes of Bruno Taut and Walter Gropius, Medieval travel memoirs from the Middle East, mid-twentieth-century comic books, Star Trek, mythical lands such as Cockaigne, and the works of Claude Debussy.
9780226470306 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
022647030X (paperback ; alkaline paper)
(electronic book)
9780226470443
Imaginary places.
Imaginary places in literature.
Imaginary places in art.
Imaginary places Religious aspects.
Lieux imaginaires.
Lieux imaginaires dans la littérature.
Lieux imaginaires dans l'art.
Lieux imaginaires Aspect religieux.
ARCHITECTURE History.
ARCHITECTURE Urban & Land Use Planning.
HISTORY.
LITERARY CRITICISM.
Stadt
Künste
Literatur
Location: Library main 294627
Call No.: BIB 240314
Status: Available
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